People v. Hawes

This is an original proceeding in this court, by mandamus, to compel the respondent, one of the Judges of the Superior Court, to sign and seal a bill of exceptions in a certain suit lately pending before him in said court. The facts, as shown by the petition, answer and affidavits, so far as we deem them material, are substantially as follows:

On the 22d of March, 1887, there was pending and undetermined in said court, an action of assumpsit brought by Emilie Pul ver, the relator, agaiust the Bochester German Insurance Company, to recover her loss and damage by fire to certain personal…